10.26.08
Darwinism, a pseudo-theory tailor-made for rapists?
It is important to consider the issues surrounding the abuse of the Darwinian pseudo-theory based on natural selection, how such a theory is a misunderstanding of physical laws applied to biology, and the way in which the FALSE assumption that biological development occurs via value-free laws.
Over and over again it has been pointed out that natural selection is a ‘microevolutionary process’, and that the real ‘evolution’, development, is something different altogether. Darwinism is a bungled job, and routinely generates violence as it passes into general public awareness. Scientists would deny this, or try to displace the problem onto something else. But the false claim for natural selection taken as the driver of evolution inexorably leads to this kind of thinking. It is the theory, if it can be called that, that is at fault.
Cavemen, modern men, Darwinism, and the Oedipus Paradox
But having briefly outlined the evolutionary theoretical approach to sex differences in human sexual behavior, I want to talk about the popular spread of that theory, however distorted or watered down it winds up. For we find references to man’s evolutionary heritage throughout popular culture — in new science textbooks, pop psychology books on relationships, men’s magazine, and even on T-shirts. (Picture the frat dude chugging a beer in a shirt with a picture of a caveman clad in a fur pelt holding a club and with the statement “Me Find Woman.” You can actually buy these shirts on cafepress.com.) There are caveman fitness plans and caveman diets. Saturday Night Live’s hilarious “Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer” and the affronted caveman of the Geico car insurance ads joke about the ubiquity of caveman narratives. More disturbingly, the Darwinian discourse also crops up when men need an excuse for antisocial behavior. One man, who was caught on amateur video participating in the Central Park group sexual assaults in the summer of 2000, can be heard on video telling his sobbing victim, “Welcome back to the caveman times.”
Contemporary biologists are simply incapable of grasping the nature of theory, and how a new type of theory is required for biological systems. We are left with an irresponsible projection into public awareness of a potentially violent and self-serving ideology, one that appeals to those whose agenda is competition, and violent conflict.
You don’t have to take Darwinism on the authority of scientists. Scientists who can’t debug this theory, or see its limits are boobs, and you should withdraw your trust in them.